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Originally Posted by DDDlady
Just food for thought: If a 25+ year old pledged a sorority, the majority of her pledge class would be 17-19. What would that person have in common with girls that much younger? They would not be in the same life place, and I would think that the older girl might feel a little left out and not able to relate to the whole 18 year old freshman world. Similar thoughts for the married girl. Is she going to have the time to dedicate to the sorority events if she has school and a family to manage? How well will she be able to fit in and relate to her pledge class?
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This is a sorority focused thing, so I'm not going to stick around beyond this little swerve, but...
I don't dispute anything you said there necessarily. I would just not like to see the sorority make that decision for the girl and not bid her because of it.
I say that because I recently saw a similar situation with my fraternity chapter in which they voted not to bid a guy that was about 25 I think and recently out of the military. Being in the military myself, I was kind of pissed about that. If you're going to hold military service against people, then we have a problem. Yeah, the guy is a few years older and in some ways is going to be different, but he also brings a lot of leadership and life experience to the table that 18-19yo pledges don't. Yeah, in some respects he may look or feel a little bit out of place in social settings with 18-19yo freshmen, but at the same time he gave up his chance at that college experience to be in the fight overseas, and now he's here going through rush trying to get a little bit of that back. I just don't think it's right for the organization to tell him he isn't entitled to that chance. I'd take a few guys like that over a few traditional freshmen any day. It's different, but they make the chapter better. I would want to see my org do the right thing in that situation rather than just be superficial.
Sorry. That's all I wanted to say. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
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